The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-27

OlQ QOC near any COuNC1ooUiOh D0tnOOh
the brakeman and tn Chinaman.
JOHN BLACK,
of Queen City, Missouri, corroborated
the story of Mr.. Almond; he was in a
seat Immediately behind Almond and
his wife; the Chinaman had knife in
one hand and a poker in the other; there
is no doubt but that the lives of the
passengers were in danger; do not be-
iieve il would have been possible to
secure the Chinaman without shooting
him, and believe the shooting was en-
tirely Unsuitable, that it saved the lives
of men, women and children.
DIR. ]. C. PoMERoY
did not think he could add anything to
what had already been said; he was
physician on his way to San Diego;
had never seen many Cinnamon and
noticed this one quite close; he had
Wild expression in his eye, and ] re-
marked to friend of mine that if he
were white man, / should be inclined to
think he was demented; but was salts
fed when he refused to come out of the
closet, that trouble would ensue; heard
the conductor on the division before
Conlisk and Ganong came on, say: LET
the boys on the next division nave him; )"
The Young fellow stabbed was from
| Bunker Hill, Illinois, if there ever was
a case of justifiable homicide, this was
certainly one-and l never felt so much
relieved IN my life when | found that
he had been captured; devoted most
OF my time to the young man, who dis
played remarkable nerve, and told me
| that if | thought there was Lo danger,
,ola tn 10 fnil n / No
examine The wound critically, because
of the motion of the train; and of de-
sire to get him here with as little worry
as possible. | say to you now that l
consider the case hopeless.
JOHN CoNLIsK
conductor on the D. & r. 6. W.-This
morning on leaving Grand Junction the
conductor who brought the train IN told
me there was a crazy Chinaman in the
water closet and they had been trying
! for some time to get him out: did not
think much of 1t, as did not believe
there was any danger; went through
the train as usual; met brakeman IN
the car where the Chinaman was, and
told him about the case; asked him
what the chances were to get him out;
went out, and soon the brakeman came
to me and said he was stabbed; he
wanted to borrow gun; went out and
saw where the Chinaman was standing,
with knife in one hand and poker IN
| the other; had to get into the car; as
! the door opened, he stabbed at me; l
| then stopped the train and jumped off,
| intending to get on at the other end be-
| fore / reached there, however, heard
| shots, and when l did reach there, the
Chinaman was lying between the seats
as has been described; if ever | saw q
! demon he was one, and there IS no
doubt but that had he not been checked
| in his career he would have muir
dered everybody in the car; as he
struck at Mrs. Almond. she dropped
| on the floor, and he then attacked the
young man named above; the China
man had sos, two checks for his bag
gage, and ticket for San Fran CISCO; he
| had little box with him, from which
| he very often took pinch of something
that doctor on the train said was gum
opium.
This closed the evidence, the. jurors
not desiring to learn any more, and
after a few moments consultation re-
| turned q verdict that the deceased came
| to his death from a pistol shot fired by
James Ganong, and that the latter was
not only justified in the act, but I'M
doubtedly saved the lives of many pas
| sengers.
THE BODY OF THE HEATHER
presented anything but a pleasing ap-
pearance as 1t lay, entirely devoid of
clothing, in the ''dead house" of
the undertaking establishment. Three
bullet holes were visible-one small one
in the region of the heart; one gaping
| oh m oh 10 oil hah
left ear, and another in the left arm; ;
the face was one mass of blood. Judg-
| ing from the appearance of the body,
the heather must have been consider
ably over the average size and weight,
and would doubtless have proven q
| formidable rival II a close contest. On
his person were found $l05 in money,
three checks for baggage bearing the
words "B. e. NJ. r. r. in 4 .braska,
Central Pacific Railway via D. e. r. g. F"
and numbered respectively 1879, 1772,
and 1886. There was also a receipt for
the payment of the remium on an in
<surance policy of $1,000 issued by the
Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association
| of New York City; several addresses of
parties with whom the deceased had
had business relations; anditwo,receipts
for registered letters bearing date of
new wilmington, "a, anu addressed
to Turk Hop, Mott Street, New York.
The ticket held by the heather was sold
in Pittsburg, and bought November q.
THE VICTIM
of the Chinaman is about q years of
age, and came from Bunker Hill, ILL.,,
He was on his way to San Francisco to
visit some relatives. His name is given
IS George Hackelbridges. At late
hour last evening, the hopes of his re-
covery were very small.
THE PASSENGERS THANKS.
Last evening, at the Cliff House, the
following preamble and resolution were
signed and afterwards sent TO The
HERALD with request that it be pub
lished. We cheerfully give 1t space:
Whereas. On the twenty-sixth day of
November A. D., 1887; we, the undersigned
passengers on the Denver & Rio Grande
Western train from Grand Junction to Salt
Lake City were in great bodily danger by
reason of q crazy Chinaman's attempt at
running amuck, and
Whereas, We are satisfied that Conductor
John Conlisk and Brakeman James Ganong
did everything in their power to protect the